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the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n g october 10 1878 no 51 kvkly days ok davidson college interesting sketches f the manual labor experiment bgtract v " snirs "/ ar1'(l''s "" r hyterianism in xorth carotina how ap haling i lhe"x 0 presbyterian bl bev j rl mh.k setting aside those who worked at trades such as cabinet making etc the whole number of students waa divided in | to two great detachments or classes for work at9 a m the steward would riveabhwtof his trumpet that echoed through the mj idea of thegnrnd old oaks and penetrated to the inmost re cesses of ench dormitory class no i would assemble tumultously on the cam - ms to be led or kent to tlie field and as j m nl tothe desired labor to continue thenceforth till 12 m at one o'clock auoth ,., riuging blast would waken the sleepy echoed and forth into the bright sunshine a l quivering heat class no.2 would pro ceed for this work the btudeuts would 1 credited tu the amount often or fifteen dollars per session according to age and working capacity on their board-bill as board was worth about six dollars per month a first-class worker would earn about half of his board 15m thesys lem wasa failure and the college farm was found to coal more than it yielded maiij causes conspired to produce this re sult semi-compulsory labor on a large scale is always unprofitable to yield a profit labor must lie either cheerfully voluntary or fully compulsory the steward could neither chastise nor dis ,â€ž,- his laborer and il was oon dis covered thai the young men held strictly to the theory thai labor was n curse and that they had come there to leal u how lo evade the curse as soon as possible ex ,â€ž.,!,.â€ž.-. proved thai three hours of hard farm work in the morning begat such fa tigue ami drowsiuess as disqualified them for study in the afternoon the after noon labiu would be even worse for the evening studies between faithful labor ami haul study life would become a bur hcn souring the spirit and repressing the elasticity of youth nor could they help regarding themselves a under the eye of sm overseer though the ofiiee was disguis ed under the name of steward to cheat inm out of their labor became almost an instinct besides there wns fun in overreaching him trying his temper and displaying iheir owu adroitness it was not a very difficult task by an awkwaid stroke to break the handle of a hoe or mattock or to drive an axe into a con miiiint stone selecting a good stout stump yet green i was comparatively easy to drive a plow full tilt against it and then minn-thing was sure to break.1 it would require an hour or two to repair these fractures and of course the laborei niitst superintend the repairs that was sn much time gained to rest an old luil.il ue uf the hill once assured the writ it that lie thought there was a bushel of clevis-pins open-rings and bull-tongues under the college chapel where they had bitii inst " by boys who were expected to use them next day but the fun par i/a hani was in hauling wood from the clearing four boys with lour horses and a wagon would go for a load of wood when the load was on each boy would mount a horse with a good switch in has hand aud then away gilpin-like n\vay went wagon horses boys thundering along like a herd of buffaloes if any chance tree or stump was in the way so much the worse for the stump or the Â« ... in wheel when they pulled npal the college it was a fortunate event if a doz en sticks'1 were lefl on lhe wagon ims iill eil tradition says that while the trum pet called tin-in iinin refreshment to lalior the college bell was used to call ihem from labor to refreshment upou a certain oc casion a pig was coaxed and inveigled by an abundant supply of com to allow liim selt to be tied with one end of a rope while the other was attached to the liell clapper while the corn lasted and the pigs appetite was unappeased the tu l nts marched solemnly to their work and begau like cincinnati to cultivate tlÂ»e soil scarcely however had they grasped the handles of the plow and hoe before the pig's appetite was appeased nd be moved gently off soon he found ins course arrested by some unaccustom ed obstruction and in terror began to surge wildly hither and thither at each mirgc the clapper came into furious con tact wiili the bell the boys all chose to consider this as the signal to knock oil nd returned in all possible haste to their ir>"tu to wash for dinner but theirs was a short lived joy the blast of the steward's inexorable trumpet re-called them to their deserted furrows and aban doned tuns and all went back sadder nd w iser boys if any one who can say quorum pars .'"'" should deny the literal truth ofthese stories 1 can only say they were tradi tions when the writer was there six years i the manual labor system was de funct dim traditions whispered under tlie leafy oaks of the campus in the cool hade ofthe evening when a new gener ation of students rejoiced that their lots were cast in better days doubtless there were many exaggerations and addi lions needed to construct a yarn that would make admiring freshmen open tlieir eves in mute amazement still these stories have about them a vraixem bltinrc that nl most challenges belief they illustrate the beauties of manual labor schools the experiece of four years suf ficed to show that the habits and tastes of the true lover of knowledge can no ! more he blended at that period of life with the habits anil tastes of tlie farm laborer than the tastes of miss in tlie par lor can be made to coincide with those of the maid of all work in the kitchen and of all persons in tlie world to detect the incongruity commend us to the bright quick-witted youth of a eellege he would infinitely prefer to chop logic than to j wield a club-axe against the trees to extract the cube root of any quatity in au infinite series whether increasing de ! creasing or converging i.s stimulating to his intellect but to extract the roots of 1 nettles briers or tlie ever-recurring sas safras is increasingly and infinitely de testable to dig a greek root from the | most remote branch of a verb in mi is ': pleasant employment compared to tlie sensation experienced when a recalcitrant loot iif some sturdy oak or hardy dog wood returns in full forceagainst tlio tibia after its elasticity lias been tested to the i utmost by the advancing plow-share and yet whatever may have been the pracatical defects of tlie manual labor system in the providence of god it sub served a valuable purpose indeed it is questionable whether the college could have been established without it the system constituted an attraction and a watch word without which the first agents might have failed to engage the at tention and enlist the sympathies of the people many would be disposed to aid iu the establishment of a college where thev fuudly hoped their sons could work their way through;11 who would otherwise have been less willing to contribute nor was there any intentional deception ; for its authors were bana-jule believeis in its eiilite practicability in the next place tlie failure of the ex periment practically settled the question whether as a rule literary study and rough farm lalior could be harmoniously blended : and proved that it was poorly worthwhile to mar tlie progress of the zealous student for the paltry sum of tt per annum ; and that he had better earn it need be at exclusive labor enough to enable him to devote himself to exclusive study in the third place it dissipated the pop ular dream of a cheap and at the same time thorough course of culture the two are incompatible education is a luxury and a privilege and costs money aim the higher the degree of culture and the greater tbe facilities enjoyed the more expensive it becomes the expenses must be met somehow they may be met by an en u.wment or by funding scholarships or by friendly beneficiary aid or in tbe absence o these helps the courageous youth who has the stuft that men are made of iu him may slowly and painful ly push his own way by alternate labor teaching and study aud be all the better for the effort many have already done this ind with a suitable college accessa lile to him any youth who deserves an education can win it for himself unless he is encumbered by burdens greater than the care of himself authorities article of rev ii ii hanks in south atlantic i millions and personal heeouecuons ol dr 1 lt ii adams the newspapers of the state gener ally stand upon their own bottoms and have no favors to ask of public men to act the part ofthe precocious puppy which speaks for the bread the most of us would regard as rather beneath the dignity ofthe profession and the editor who bestows undeserv ed praise upon any man for the pur pose of winning his gratitude or to pave the way for the asking ofa fa vor would soon find himself minus the respect ofthe fraternity as well as that uf the public at large â€” char democrat among the many martyrs to tl e cause of humanity during the awful scourge that has been desolating and impoverishing the south there is none whose death has excited more comment or caused profounder regret than that of col butler p anderson president of the howard association at memphis who died at grenada he was a most faithful and gallant soldier during the late war and was one of the most conspicuous workers among the sick and the dying until he fell at the post of duty and on the field of honor a public meeting was held in nashville some two weeks ago and a committee was appointed to prepare a circular appeal to the bar association of the united states for donations to the fund for the sup port of the orphan children of col anderson a noble cause that will be responded to no doubt promptly by the legal profession throughout the country â€” wil star a coin deposit money to be petiel out by hie govern ment for bullion at charlotte col c j cowles assay er and mclt er at the united states assay office in this city has received instructions from the treasury department for adding to the assay office the feature of a coin | deposit this is in accordance with an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill known as patter \ son's amendment this is what those interested in the ! development of mines in the atlantic gold belt and more especially those who have been operating mines them selves have been contending for ever since the united states branch mint here ceased to be a mint of coinage hitherto all gold iu the form of bul lion had to be shipped to philadelphia at a considerable expense for express charges before the coin or greenbacks could be obtained or sold here at a price whicli would repay the purcha ser for the expense aud trouble of shipping to the same point 1 he shipping expense was never less than one per cent and sometimes more under the arrangement which has just gone into effect the operator can bring his crude gold to the assay office and without any delay receive its full value in silver or greenbacks only one-tenth of one per cent being reserved as charges for assaying accompanying the instructions to the assayer for conducting this branch of business was an order permitting him to draw at once upon the treasury department for 5,0 0 to be used in exchange for gold as much more will i be forwarded from time to time throughout the year as is need for this purpose it will be however some little time before the assayer is ready to make the exchange as the details of the new arrangement have not been perfected in speaking of this effect ofthe new feature of the assay office col cowles said that among the advantages which have already been referred to iu this article it would result in increasing the business ofthe mint ten-fold with in the coining year he called atten tion to the fact that the coin deposit must not be confounded with the sub treasury which congress in a bill amended by gen vance had con sented to have established here this matter is still under consideration in the treasury department and will doubtless be acted on within the year a sub-treasury would afford still greater advantages â€” char observer gold as mailable matter under the law of congress admit ting merchandise into the mails as third-class matter the postmaster general recently issued an order that gold should be considered as mailable matter ' these directions are how ever according to the statement of the washington post causing considera ble dissatisfaction among postmasters and several have protested against being compelled to receive gold the responsibility incurred in its carriage and delivery is greater than they wish to assume although its loss does not fall upon the government but upon the sender the disapperance of a package of gold at any point be tween the forwarding office and its destination would cast an unpleasant cloud upon the wohle line and the great temptation would render such d.shonesty at least possible the com paratively large quantity of gold that is presented for mailing shows that persons are willing to take the risk and place implicit confidence in gov ernment employees although the pie sent mode of milling it is not as safe as a registered letter the opin ion of the department is that it must be considered mailable matter and received and forwarded notwithstand ing the general desire to the contrary â€” char observer mamma who has been screaming at the top of her voice for over ten minutes to johnny who has just crawled down from the hay-loft â€” you naughty naughty boy why didn't you answer me before johnny very innocently â€” really and truly mamma i didn't hear you tilj you called free or four times â€” puck * north carolina in 1773 by josiah quincy statpsville american the soils and climates ofthe car olinas differ but not so much as their inhabitants the number of nesrroes aud slaves is much less in north than in south carolina their stap'ecom modity is not so valuable not beino in so great demand as the rice indigo fcc of the south hence labor be comes more necessary itnd he who has an interest of his own to serve is a laborer in the field husbandmen and agriculture increase in number aud improvements industry is up in the woods at tar pitch and turpentine in the fields ploughing planting clearing or fenc ing the land herds and flocks be come more numerous yon see hus bandmen yeomen and white laborers scattered through the country instead of herds of negroesand slaves health ful countenances and numerous fami lies become more common as yon ad vance north property is more equal ly diffused in one province than an other and this may account for some if not for all the differences of char acter in the inhabitants however in one respect i find a pretty near re semblance between the two colonies : i nie_yi the state of religion it is certainly high time to repeal the laws relative to religion and observation of the sabbath or to see them better executed avowed impunity of all offenders is one sign at least that the laws want amendment or abrogation alike as the carol inas are in this re spect they certainly vary much as to their general sentiments opinions and judgments the staple commod ities of north carolina are all kinds of naval stores â€” indian corn hemp flax-seed some tobacco which they generally send to virginia c the culture of wheat and rice is making quick progress as a spirit of agricul ture i.s rising fast * * * * i ho commerce of north carolina is much diffused through the several parts ofthe province they in some respects may be said to have no me tropolis though newberne is called the capital as there is the seat of gov ernment it is made a question which carries on the most trade whether edenton newberne wilmington or brunswick it seems to be one ofthe two first there is very little inter course between the northern and southern provinces of carolina the present state of north carolina is really curious : there are but five pro vincial laws in force through the col ony and no courts at all in being no one can recover a debt except be fore a single magistrate where the sums are within his jurisdiction and offenders escape with impunity the people are in great consternation about the matter what will be the conse quences is problematical this extract from the memoir of josiah quincy found in jones de fence page 93 is very curious and interesting to us now more than a century after a similar man from the same quarter would doubtless make a different report now about many things what has become of the town brunswick above men tioned that competed with the other towns for trade in a gazetteer of 1825 it is put down in brunswick county 30 miles up the cape fear riv er this is about the distance ot wil mington it is not given in an old geography of 1705 tm ibi the greatest violinist in the world is now in new york he spells bis name willielmj which we learn is pronounced wil helm j there is no doubt about his greatness in the fiddling way he is greater even than ole bull he gave his bret concert iu new york on thursday night to an immense audience and tlie enthusiasm was tremendous the excel lent new york correspondent of the phil adelphia times telegraphs in many particulars his triumph is even more remarkable than that of ru binstein he won it almost instantane ously for the audience was completely conquered before he had played a dozen measures and it is a conquest which seems to have no qualifying exceptions whatever the verdict is unanimous that he is so far before all other violinist who have visited this country that he stands alone the extraordinary beauty of his tone and the brilliancy of his execution are not more fascinating than the elo quence of his expression the sympathetic character of his music and the sympathet ic nature ofthe mail himself a splendid tribute i heroism ofthe southern people in war [ and in pestilence from the london standard the younger among us cannot per j haps remember the keen warm sym j pathy with which the english ofl 1861 65 witnessed the heroic strng \ gle maintained by their southern ! kinsmen against six-fold odds of num ! bers and odds of position resources vantage ground simply incalculable j even those who from sympathy with the northern states were unfavorable to the cause of a great nation revolting against a real tyranny could not but feel proud of our near kinship with that incomparable soldiery â€” so des ignated by their enemies â€” which on fifty battle fields maintained a contest such as no other race has ever in mod ern times maintained and at last when all hope was gone held for six months with 45,000 men against 150,000 a slender line of earthworks thirty miles in length who marched out 28,000 strong and after six days retreat in face of a countless cavalry and overwhelming artillery and in fantry pressing them on all sides sur rendered at last but 8,000 bayonets and sabres it is this people the flower and pride ofthe great english race on whom a more terrible more merciless enemy has now fallen there can now be no division of sym pathy as there is no passion to excite and keep up the courage needed for the occasion yet the men and wo men ofthe south are true t'i the old tradition her youth volunteer to serve and die in the streets of plague striekei cities as readily as they went forth boys and gray haired men to meet the threatened surprise of peters burg â€” as they volunteered to charge again and again the cannon-crowned ' hills of gettysburg and . to enrich i with their blood and honor with the name of a new victory every field around richmond their sisters wives mothers and daughters are do ing and sn fieri ng now as they suffer ed from famine disease incessant anx iety and alarm throughout the four years of the civil war there may be among the various nations of the aryan family one or two who would claim that they could have furnished troops like those which followed lee and johnston stuart and stonewall jackson but we doubt whether there be one race beside our own that could send forth its children by hundreds to face in town desolated by the yellow fever the horrors ofa nurse's life and the imminent terror of a martyr's death m mti m hard times times aie hard everyone says so they said so last year they said so rive years ago they said s ten twen ty thirty years ago in fact we never knew the time when the public failed to vote unanimously that the times were hard if you ask onr merchants they will tell you they sell few goods on credit if you go in the country you will see the crib full of corn and fields with cotton you there see in dustry unsurpassed by any country in the world you find the most improv ed machienery for ginning cotton and it is common to hear the steam engine whistle in the country as in town you see young men whose fathers and mothers went to meeting horseback now dash up to the meeting house with a red buggy with his sweetheart by his side with a tied-back dress and kid gloves the most casual ob server will tell you that the stock of the country was never in better con dition and that there are finer horses bigger and fatter mules and more berkshire hogs in the country than was ever known before in the coun try you see new residences built upon the most modern style with modern conveniences we know of houses erected in the country lhat are supe rior to many and equal to the best in town farmers are making money gradually slowly but surely and we are sure that this reaction all tilings considered has grown in wealth and is to-day better off than ever the lit j tie towns may suffer but the couutry is getting wealthier daily griffin news a fact to be remembered a wall street new york broker laid a wager the other day that chris topher columbus discovered the con tinent of north america and of course he lost it is surprising how many intelligent persons entertain the same enor knowing that he discovered a number of islands in the western hem isphere they thought that he must of necessity have discovered this conti nent also they forgot that he died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his achievements believing cuba terra firma and the other lands he had found to he remote parts of asia amerigo vespucci after whom north and south america is named did not discover this continent proper either the land he discovered lay near the equator and he too was deluded with the notion that it was a portion of asia john cabot was the discoverer of north america some time in may 1497 which he likewise supposed to belongs to the dominions of the grand cham ho sailed along the coast for 300 leagues and went ashore without finding any human beings though he believed the eounjrv in habited it is remarkable that the three great discoverers of the west ern world should all have been ital ians â€” columbus having been born in genoa vespucci in florence and cabot presumably in venice tie birth of cabot is uncertain as are his age and place and time of his death but the fact that the license granted him by henry vii calls him kabet to venetain would seem to deter mine the question of his nativity the discovers had a sorry fortune columbus as we are aware was trea ted with the blackest ingratitude l.v the king of spain when the offi cers of ihe vessel in which he was car ried a prisoner to spain offered lo re move his chains imposed upon him by royal order he replied i will wear them as a reminder of tlio gra titude of princes he died as every body knows neglected in extreme poverty of a broken jicart vespucci had many trials and died poor and cabos or cabotta fell into such ob scurity that no one can tell where or when or how he died surely tlie auguries attendant on the birth ofthe western world were not favorable and in a superstitious age might have led to the belief that its history would never be marked by cood fortune had as the fever if we have not yellow fever the cholera or the plague in this city we huve the evil among us that makes more misery destroys more lives ami imposes a heavier fax on property than a year of pestilence when david was oflered the choice of his people being smitten with tlie pestilence or by the sword he chose the pestilence as beimj more directly the minister of god's displeasure and he said let me fall into the hands of god and not of man the trouble with us is we are in the hands of men and dreadfully bad men at that there are g od laws made to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors be cause their use is the most prolific source of our crimes disease ami deaths and especially of our enor mous taxes but the men set to exe cute these laws have in the first place given about six thousand persons full permission to sell a number far in advance of the wants of the people and then in addition to this vast li censed army our authorities suffer five thousand men to sell without license : so that with or without the permit and in all cases with the knowledge of the officers ofthe law we have a standing army in this city of more than 10,000 men dealing out the destructive element for the ruin of our people these are the men who are doing more injury than the yellow fever would do if it were now to burst upon us inee the first of may the number of hotels in this city has increased by 1,600 and more they are mostly mere grog shops but the excise board under their oath declared these hotels necessary and gave them the legal sanction of the state how much longer will an op pressed and overtaxed community sub mit to these official utrages ? â€” n y observer death of the governor's moth er.â€”a telegram received in this city yesterday announced the death of the mother of gov z b and jen r b vance at the residence of the latter on the swannanoa river in buncombe county mr vance was a very aged lady and has foi several months post been declining rapidly ndeed the governor has several times been called from his official duties to attend at her bedside she died in the full en joy ment of the hope held out by the christian religion ofa blessed immor tality beyond the grave and leaves behind her the increase ofa quiet de voted christian life char observer oct iltit children are children and kittens are kittens a sober sensible old cat that sits purring before the fire does not trouble her.-elf because her kitten is hurrying and dashing hither and thither in a fever of excitement to catch its own tail she sits still and purrs on people should do the same with children one of the ditliculties of home education is the impossibility of making parents keep still it is with them out of affection all watch and worry tin murder ci.-sc ut /,'.)<â– /. //,//, & r the yorkvflle enquirer of october m i gives the following probably correct ac count of the unfortunate occurrence bv ! which mr i m murray of this city lost , his life : â€” charlotte dem on tuesday afternoon of last week t m murray a building contractor of chai lotte n ('., was shot and fatally wound ed at rock hill by henry primer a car penter whose home is in wadesboro n c liom what we can learn respecting the affair l c murray a brother of the victim ofthe rencounter and brunermcl on the day iu question near hasan's bar rooro when brnner offered an apology to l ('. murray for a remark in mail con cerning him at some previous time the words wen overheard by 1 m murray who approached and entered in ji con versation w iiii'it soon be une a qnai rei im tween the pai ties during the progress of which i ('. murra struck bruncr p.m murray then threw bruneron tbe ground and commenced heating him at this juncture several pistol shots were fired by l ('. murray and brnner it not being definitely stated who tired the first shot though it u thought l ('. murray did endeavoring to hit brnner whom i m murray was al that time holding dowa and beating when the panics wen separated it was found ihat brnner had escaped the pistol shot directed at him but that he had idiot 1 m murray while murray \...^ on him inflicting wounds in the breast and bowels tiie wound in the breast was slight and t!i it in tin bowels which produced death was noi discovered until several hours after ilu altercation mm ray diet iu the afternoon atnl liis remains were taken to charlotte tor interment brnner was arrested ami committed to jail in this place l/./,./m i ;// oft il.e old mi ing murder will out was strange verified in in iug to light the ev idence of au awful tragedy near liie i-it of bridgeport in thi state last week a man and his little son were fishing in a stream called cedar reek near to the beach in running about the boy came upon an old shoe to which was attached a stone 1 a small piece of string at tempting io put his loot ia it he encoun tered an obstacle ami called his father the man took it to remove the obstruc tion when he found thai a human foot was in the shoe appalled by tin sight he immediately returned to the city leaving the ghastly object where found lb in formed the people at once the matter was kept secret by the authorities who despatched an officer to the place < mi hia reaching there !><â€¢ found the tide had covered tlie beach and ho was obliged to return the next day he agaiu repaired to the spot and found the shoe and its ga-tly contents as described it was brought to the police office the leather cut open and the flesh taken out 1 proved to be a piece of corned beef sub sequent investigation developed the fact that a man named ed wards had been fish ing there for crabs and used tie corned beef for bait wishing to us it another lay he put it in an old shoe and attached tin tone to prevent its being carried away by the tide it was a dreadfully narrow escape from the unearthing of au awful tragedy tiie policeman and the man who made the discovery aie both se riously ill iranian xtu-s in a recent oration a vermont speaker rather los track of himself aud remarked : wben w pass one Â«.| these ni:le-st u â€¢â€¢; of life it behooves us i â€¢ stop nd t e cn soundings and bee where we aie g â€¢

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the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n g october 10 1878 no 51 kvkly days ok davidson college interesting sketches f the manual labor experiment bgtract v " snirs "/ ar1'(l''s "" r hyterianism in xorth carotina how ap haling i lhe"x 0 presbyterian bl bev j rl mh.k setting aside those who worked at trades such as cabinet making etc the whole number of students waa divided in | to two great detachments or classes for work at9 a m the steward would riveabhwtof his trumpet that echoed through the mj idea of thegnrnd old oaks and penetrated to the inmost re cesses of ench dormitory class no i would assemble tumultously on the cam - ms to be led or kent to tlie field and as j m nl tothe desired labor to continue thenceforth till 12 m at one o'clock auoth ,., riuging blast would waken the sleepy echoed and forth into the bright sunshine a l quivering heat class no.2 would pro ceed for this work the btudeuts would 1 credited tu the amount often or fifteen dollars per session according to age and working capacity on their board-bill as board was worth about six dollars per month a first-class worker would earn about half of his board 15m thesys lem wasa failure and the college farm was found to coal more than it yielded maiij causes conspired to produce this re sult semi-compulsory labor on a large scale is always unprofitable to yield a profit labor must lie either cheerfully voluntary or fully compulsory the steward could neither chastise nor dis ,â€ž,- his laborer and il was oon dis covered thai the young men held strictly to the theory thai labor was n curse and that they had come there to leal u how lo evade the curse as soon as possible ex ,â€ž.,!,.â€ž.-. proved thai three hours of hard farm work in the morning begat such fa tigue ami drowsiuess as disqualified them for study in the afternoon the after noon labiu would be even worse for the evening studies between faithful labor ami haul study life would become a bur hcn souring the spirit and repressing the elasticity of youth nor could they help regarding themselves a under the eye of sm overseer though the ofiiee was disguis ed under the name of steward to cheat inm out of their labor became almost an instinct besides there wns fun in overreaching him trying his temper and displaying iheir owu adroitness it was not a very difficult task by an awkwaid stroke to break the handle of a hoe or mattock or to drive an axe into a con miiiint stone selecting a good stout stump yet green i was comparatively easy to drive a plow full tilt against it and then minn-thing was sure to break.1 it would require an hour or two to repair these fractures and of course the laborei niitst superintend the repairs that was sn much time gained to rest an old luil.il ue uf the hill once assured the writ it that lie thought there was a bushel of clevis-pins open-rings and bull-tongues under the college chapel where they had bitii inst " by boys who were expected to use them next day but the fun par i/a hani was in hauling wood from the clearing four boys with lour horses and a wagon would go for a load of wood when the load was on each boy would mount a horse with a good switch in has hand aud then away gilpin-like n\vay went wagon horses boys thundering along like a herd of buffaloes if any chance tree or stump was in the way so much the worse for the stump or the Â« ... in wheel when they pulled npal the college it was a fortunate event if a doz en sticks'1 were lefl on lhe wagon ims iill eil tradition says that while the trum pet called tin-in iinin refreshment to lalior the college bell was used to call ihem from labor to refreshment upou a certain oc casion a pig was coaxed and inveigled by an abundant supply of com to allow liim selt to be tied with one end of a rope while the other was attached to the liell clapper while the corn lasted and the pigs appetite was unappeased the tu l nts marched solemnly to their work and begau like cincinnati to cultivate tlÂ»e soil scarcely however had they grasped the handles of the plow and hoe before the pig's appetite was appeased nd be moved gently off soon he found ins course arrested by some unaccustom ed obstruction and in terror began to surge wildly hither and thither at each mirgc the clapper came into furious con tact wiili the bell the boys all chose to consider this as the signal to knock oil nd returned in all possible haste to their ir>"tu to wash for dinner but theirs was a short lived joy the blast of the steward's inexorable trumpet re-called them to their deserted furrows and aban doned tuns and all went back sadder nd w iser boys if any one who can say quorum pars .'"'" should deny the literal truth ofthese stories 1 can only say they were tradi tions when the writer was there six years i the manual labor system was de funct dim traditions whispered under tlie leafy oaks of the campus in the cool hade ofthe evening when a new gener ation of students rejoiced that their lots were cast in better days doubtless there were many exaggerations and addi lions needed to construct a yarn that would make admiring freshmen open tlieir eves in mute amazement still these stories have about them a vraixem bltinrc that nl most challenges belief they illustrate the beauties of manual labor schools the experiece of four years suf ficed to show that the habits and tastes of the true lover of knowledge can no ! more he blended at that period of life with the habits anil tastes of tlie farm laborer than the tastes of miss in tlie par lor can be made to coincide with those of the maid of all work in the kitchen and of all persons in tlie world to detect the incongruity commend us to the bright quick-witted youth of a eellege he would infinitely prefer to chop logic than to j wield a club-axe against the trees to extract the cube root of any quatity in au infinite series whether increasing de ! creasing or converging i.s stimulating to his intellect but to extract the roots of 1 nettles briers or tlie ever-recurring sas safras is increasingly and infinitely de testable to dig a greek root from the | most remote branch of a verb in mi is ': pleasant employment compared to tlie sensation experienced when a recalcitrant loot iif some sturdy oak or hardy dog wood returns in full forceagainst tlio tibia after its elasticity lias been tested to the i utmost by the advancing plow-share and yet whatever may have been the pracatical defects of tlie manual labor system in the providence of god it sub served a valuable purpose indeed it is questionable whether the college could have been established without it the system constituted an attraction and a watch word without which the first agents might have failed to engage the at tention and enlist the sympathies of the people many would be disposed to aid iu the establishment of a college where thev fuudly hoped their sons could work their way through;11 who would otherwise have been less willing to contribute nor was there any intentional deception ; for its authors were bana-jule believeis in its eiilite practicability in the next place tlie failure of the ex periment practically settled the question whether as a rule literary study and rough farm lalior could be harmoniously blended : and proved that it was poorly worthwhile to mar tlie progress of the zealous student for the paltry sum of tt per annum ; and that he had better earn it need be at exclusive labor enough to enable him to devote himself to exclusive study in the third place it dissipated the pop ular dream of a cheap and at the same time thorough course of culture the two are incompatible education is a luxury and a privilege and costs money aim the higher the degree of culture and the greater tbe facilities enjoyed the more expensive it becomes the expenses must be met somehow they may be met by an en u.wment or by funding scholarships or by friendly beneficiary aid or in tbe absence o these helps the courageous youth who has the stuft that men are made of iu him may slowly and painful ly push his own way by alternate labor teaching and study aud be all the better for the effort many have already done this ind with a suitable college accessa lile to him any youth who deserves an education can win it for himself unless he is encumbered by burdens greater than the care of himself authorities article of rev ii ii hanks in south atlantic i millions and personal heeouecuons ol dr 1 lt ii adams the newspapers of the state gener ally stand upon their own bottoms and have no favors to ask of public men to act the part ofthe precocious puppy which speaks for the bread the most of us would regard as rather beneath the dignity ofthe profession and the editor who bestows undeserv ed praise upon any man for the pur pose of winning his gratitude or to pave the way for the asking ofa fa vor would soon find himself minus the respect ofthe fraternity as well as that uf the public at large â€” char democrat among the many martyrs to tl e cause of humanity during the awful scourge that has been desolating and impoverishing the south there is none whose death has excited more comment or caused profounder regret than that of col butler p anderson president of the howard association at memphis who died at grenada he was a most faithful and gallant soldier during the late war and was one of the most conspicuous workers among the sick and the dying until he fell at the post of duty and on the field of honor a public meeting was held in nashville some two weeks ago and a committee was appointed to prepare a circular appeal to the bar association of the united states for donations to the fund for the sup port of the orphan children of col anderson a noble cause that will be responded to no doubt promptly by the legal profession throughout the country â€” wil star a coin deposit money to be petiel out by hie govern ment for bullion at charlotte col c j cowles assay er and mclt er at the united states assay office in this city has received instructions from the treasury department for adding to the assay office the feature of a coin | deposit this is in accordance with an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill known as patter \ son's amendment this is what those interested in the ! development of mines in the atlantic gold belt and more especially those who have been operating mines them selves have been contending for ever since the united states branch mint here ceased to be a mint of coinage hitherto all gold iu the form of bul lion had to be shipped to philadelphia at a considerable expense for express charges before the coin or greenbacks could be obtained or sold here at a price whicli would repay the purcha ser for the expense aud trouble of shipping to the same point 1 he shipping expense was never less than one per cent and sometimes more under the arrangement which has just gone into effect the operator can bring his crude gold to the assay office and without any delay receive its full value in silver or greenbacks only one-tenth of one per cent being reserved as charges for assaying accompanying the instructions to the assayer for conducting this branch of business was an order permitting him to draw at once upon the treasury department for 5,0 0 to be used in exchange for gold as much more will i be forwarded from time to time throughout the year as is need for this purpose it will be however some little time before the assayer is ready to make the exchange as the details of the new arrangement have not been perfected in speaking of this effect ofthe new feature of the assay office col cowles said that among the advantages which have already been referred to iu this article it would result in increasing the business ofthe mint ten-fold with in the coining year he called atten tion to the fact that the coin deposit must not be confounded with the sub treasury which congress in a bill amended by gen vance had con sented to have established here this matter is still under consideration in the treasury department and will doubtless be acted on within the year a sub-treasury would afford still greater advantages â€” char observer gold as mailable matter under the law of congress admit ting merchandise into the mails as third-class matter the postmaster general recently issued an order that gold should be considered as mailable matter ' these directions are how ever according to the statement of the washington post causing considera ble dissatisfaction among postmasters and several have protested against being compelled to receive gold the responsibility incurred in its carriage and delivery is greater than they wish to assume although its loss does not fall upon the government but upon the sender the disapperance of a package of gold at any point be tween the forwarding office and its destination would cast an unpleasant cloud upon the wohle line and the great temptation would render such d.shonesty at least possible the com paratively large quantity of gold that is presented for mailing shows that persons are willing to take the risk and place implicit confidence in gov ernment employees although the pie sent mode of milling it is not as safe as a registered letter the opin ion of the department is that it must be considered mailable matter and received and forwarded notwithstand ing the general desire to the contrary â€” char observer mamma who has been screaming at the top of her voice for over ten minutes to johnny who has just crawled down from the hay-loft â€” you naughty naughty boy why didn't you answer me before johnny very innocently â€” really and truly mamma i didn't hear you tilj you called free or four times â€” puck * north carolina in 1773 by josiah quincy statpsville american the soils and climates ofthe car olinas differ but not so much as their inhabitants the number of nesrroes aud slaves is much less in north than in south carolina their stap'ecom modity is not so valuable not beino in so great demand as the rice indigo fcc of the south hence labor be comes more necessary itnd he who has an interest of his own to serve is a laborer in the field husbandmen and agriculture increase in number aud improvements industry is up in the woods at tar pitch and turpentine in the fields ploughing planting clearing or fenc ing the land herds and flocks be come more numerous yon see hus bandmen yeomen and white laborers scattered through the country instead of herds of negroesand slaves health ful countenances and numerous fami lies become more common as yon ad vance north property is more equal ly diffused in one province than an other and this may account for some if not for all the differences of char acter in the inhabitants however in one respect i find a pretty near re semblance between the two colonies : i nie_yi the state of religion it is certainly high time to repeal the laws relative to religion and observation of the sabbath or to see them better executed avowed impunity of all offenders is one sign at least that the laws want amendment or abrogation alike as the carol inas are in this re spect they certainly vary much as to their general sentiments opinions and judgments the staple commod ities of north carolina are all kinds of naval stores â€” indian corn hemp flax-seed some tobacco which they generally send to virginia c the culture of wheat and rice is making quick progress as a spirit of agricul ture i.s rising fast * * * * i ho commerce of north carolina is much diffused through the several parts ofthe province they in some respects may be said to have no me tropolis though newberne is called the capital as there is the seat of gov ernment it is made a question which carries on the most trade whether edenton newberne wilmington or brunswick it seems to be one ofthe two first there is very little inter course between the northern and southern provinces of carolina the present state of north carolina is really curious : there are but five pro vincial laws in force through the col ony and no courts at all in being no one can recover a debt except be fore a single magistrate where the sums are within his jurisdiction and offenders escape with impunity the people are in great consternation about the matter what will be the conse quences is problematical this extract from the memoir of josiah quincy found in jones de fence page 93 is very curious and interesting to us now more than a century after a similar man from the same quarter would doubtless make a different report now about many things what has become of the town brunswick above men tioned that competed with the other towns for trade in a gazetteer of 1825 it is put down in brunswick county 30 miles up the cape fear riv er this is about the distance ot wil mington it is not given in an old geography of 1705 tm ibi the greatest violinist in the world is now in new york he spells bis name willielmj which we learn is pronounced wil helm j there is no doubt about his greatness in the fiddling way he is greater even than ole bull he gave his bret concert iu new york on thursday night to an immense audience and tlie enthusiasm was tremendous the excel lent new york correspondent of the phil adelphia times telegraphs in many particulars his triumph is even more remarkable than that of ru binstein he won it almost instantane ously for the audience was completely conquered before he had played a dozen measures and it is a conquest which seems to have no qualifying exceptions whatever the verdict is unanimous that he is so far before all other violinist who have visited this country that he stands alone the extraordinary beauty of his tone and the brilliancy of his execution are not more fascinating than the elo quence of his expression the sympathetic character of his music and the sympathet ic nature ofthe mail himself a splendid tribute i heroism ofthe southern people in war [ and in pestilence from the london standard the younger among us cannot per j haps remember the keen warm sym j pathy with which the english ofl 1861 65 witnessed the heroic strng \ gle maintained by their southern ! kinsmen against six-fold odds of num ! bers and odds of position resources vantage ground simply incalculable j even those who from sympathy with the northern states were unfavorable to the cause of a great nation revolting against a real tyranny could not but feel proud of our near kinship with that incomparable soldiery â€” so des ignated by their enemies â€” which on fifty battle fields maintained a contest such as no other race has ever in mod ern times maintained and at last when all hope was gone held for six months with 45,000 men against 150,000 a slender line of earthworks thirty miles in length who marched out 28,000 strong and after six days retreat in face of a countless cavalry and overwhelming artillery and in fantry pressing them on all sides sur rendered at last but 8,000 bayonets and sabres it is this people the flower and pride ofthe great english race on whom a more terrible more merciless enemy has now fallen there can now be no division of sym pathy as there is no passion to excite and keep up the courage needed for the occasion yet the men and wo men ofthe south are true t'i the old tradition her youth volunteer to serve and die in the streets of plague striekei cities as readily as they went forth boys and gray haired men to meet the threatened surprise of peters burg â€” as they volunteered to charge again and again the cannon-crowned ' hills of gettysburg and . to enrich i with their blood and honor with the name of a new victory every field around richmond their sisters wives mothers and daughters are do ing and sn fieri ng now as they suffer ed from famine disease incessant anx iety and alarm throughout the four years of the civil war there may be among the various nations of the aryan family one or two who would claim that they could have furnished troops like those which followed lee and johnston stuart and stonewall jackson but we doubt whether there be one race beside our own that could send forth its children by hundreds to face in town desolated by the yellow fever the horrors ofa nurse's life and the imminent terror of a martyr's death m mti m hard times times aie hard everyone says so they said so last year they said so rive years ago they said s ten twen ty thirty years ago in fact we never knew the time when the public failed to vote unanimously that the times were hard if you ask onr merchants they will tell you they sell few goods on credit if you go in the country you will see the crib full of corn and fields with cotton you there see in dustry unsurpassed by any country in the world you find the most improv ed machienery for ginning cotton and it is common to hear the steam engine whistle in the country as in town you see young men whose fathers and mothers went to meeting horseback now dash up to the meeting house with a red buggy with his sweetheart by his side with a tied-back dress and kid gloves the most casual ob server will tell you that the stock of the country was never in better con dition and that there are finer horses bigger and fatter mules and more berkshire hogs in the country than was ever known before in the coun try you see new residences built upon the most modern style with modern conveniences we know of houses erected in the country lhat are supe rior to many and equal to the best in town farmers are making money gradually slowly but surely and we are sure that this reaction all tilings considered has grown in wealth and is to-day better off than ever the lit j tie towns may suffer but the couutry is getting wealthier daily griffin news a fact to be remembered a wall street new york broker laid a wager the other day that chris topher columbus discovered the con tinent of north america and of course he lost it is surprising how many intelligent persons entertain the same enor knowing that he discovered a number of islands in the western hem isphere they thought that he must of necessity have discovered this conti nent also they forgot that he died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his achievements believing cuba terra firma and the other lands he had found to he remote parts of asia amerigo vespucci after whom north and south america is named did not discover this continent proper either the land he discovered lay near the equator and he too was deluded with the notion that it was a portion of asia john cabot was the discoverer of north america some time in may 1497 which he likewise supposed to belongs to the dominions of the grand cham ho sailed along the coast for 300 leagues and went ashore without finding any human beings though he believed the eounjrv in habited it is remarkable that the three great discoverers of the west ern world should all have been ital ians â€” columbus having been born in genoa vespucci in florence and cabot presumably in venice tie birth of cabot is uncertain as are his age and place and time of his death but the fact that the license granted him by henry vii calls him kabet to venetain would seem to deter mine the question of his nativity the discovers had a sorry fortune columbus as we are aware was trea ted with the blackest ingratitude l.v the king of spain when the offi cers of ihe vessel in which he was car ried a prisoner to spain offered lo re move his chains imposed upon him by royal order he replied i will wear them as a reminder of tlio gra titude of princes he died as every body knows neglected in extreme poverty of a broken jicart vespucci had many trials and died poor and cabos or cabotta fell into such ob scurity that no one can tell where or when or how he died surely tlie auguries attendant on the birth ofthe western world were not favorable and in a superstitious age might have led to the belief that its history would never be marked by cood fortune had as the fever if we have not yellow fever the cholera or the plague in this city we huve the evil among us that makes more misery destroys more lives ami imposes a heavier fax on property than a year of pestilence when david was oflered the choice of his people being smitten with tlie pestilence or by the sword he chose the pestilence as beimj more directly the minister of god's displeasure and he said let me fall into the hands of god and not of man the trouble with us is we are in the hands of men and dreadfully bad men at that there are g od laws made to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors be cause their use is the most prolific source of our crimes disease ami deaths and especially of our enor mous taxes but the men set to exe cute these laws have in the first place given about six thousand persons full permission to sell a number far in advance of the wants of the people and then in addition to this vast li censed army our authorities suffer five thousand men to sell without license : so that with or without the permit and in all cases with the knowledge of the officers ofthe law we have a standing army in this city of more than 10,000 men dealing out the destructive element for the ruin of our people these are the men who are doing more injury than the yellow fever would do if it were now to burst upon us inee the first of may the number of hotels in this city has increased by 1,600 and more they are mostly mere grog shops but the excise board under their oath declared these hotels necessary and gave them the legal sanction of the state how much longer will an op pressed and overtaxed community sub mit to these official utrages ? â€” n y observer death of the governor's moth er.â€”a telegram received in this city yesterday announced the death of the mother of gov z b and jen r b vance at the residence of the latter on the swannanoa river in buncombe county mr vance was a very aged lady and has foi several months post been declining rapidly ndeed the governor has several times been called from his official duties to attend at her bedside she died in the full en joy ment of the hope held out by the christian religion ofa blessed immor tality beyond the grave and leaves behind her the increase ofa quiet de voted christian life char observer oct iltit children are children and kittens are kittens a sober sensible old cat that sits purring before the fire does not trouble her.-elf because her kitten is hurrying and dashing hither and thither in a fever of excitement to catch its own tail she sits still and purrs on people should do the same with children one of the ditliculties of home education is the impossibility of making parents keep still it is with them out of affection all watch and worry tin murder ci.-sc ut /,'.)